Eliya Abuna

Eliya Abuna, around 1920

Mar Eliya Abuna von Alqosh (* 1862 , † 1955 in Kirkuk ) was a bishop of the autocephalous "Apostolic Church of the East" and the Chaldean Catholic Church .

Life

Giwargis (Georg) d'Beth Abuna came as the last name says, the house in which up to the first generation after the unification of the "patriarchy level" with the Pope in Rome, the Office of the Catholicos-Patriarch of the "Church of the East" with Seat in Alqosh had been hereditary. He attended the Chaldean Catholic seminary in Mosul and in 1887 or 1888 in which was Catholic Chaldean Church for priests ordained. He then worked in various places before returning to his native Alqosh in 1908 and becoming the head of a group of Chaldean Catholics who wanted a shepherd from the old patriarchal family. On May 2, 1909 Giwargis was made by Catholicos - Patriarch Mar Shimun XXI. in the village Qudschanis the bishop ordained by Alqosh and took the official name of the former Alqosh patriarch, Mar Eliya (Elias) on. However, he was unable to establish himself at the bishopric he claimed and returned to Qudschanis in April 1910. In 1912, Mar Shimun XXI entrusted him. with the diocese of Taimar, the area around Van in what is now Eastern Turkey. There he appeared in January 1916 as the companion of the Catholicos Patriarch in his negotiations with the Russians and then apparently took part in the evacuation of the Assyrian hill tribes to the plain of Urmia . After the devious killing of Shimun XXI. He directed the funeral of the deceased on March 6, 1918 jul. in the cemetery of the Armenian Church of Khosroabad ( Khosrova ) and was one of the co -consecrators of Mar Polos Shimun XXII. on April 14, 1918 Jul. in Urmia. In October 1920 he signed the charter of the appointment of Mar Abimalek Timothy of India to the minister of the Catholicos patriarch Mar Shimun XXIII.

The following year he reverted to the Chaldean Catholic Church and was appointed Patriarchal Vicar for the Diocese of Aqra in 1924 , but gave up this service after less than two years. He spent the following three decades up to his death in 1955 in Alqosh and elsewhere with his relatives.

Works

Eliya Abuna wrote a number of books: A History of the Eastern Patriarchs in two volumes, one in New Syriac, the second in Classical Syriac (Harvard College Library, Hougton Library MS Syriac 182 and 183) and an astronomical treatise in Arabic (Hougton Library MS Arabic 394). The church history work is said to have been published by Hermis Aboona (1940–2009).

literature

• James Farwell Coakley: The Church of the East since 1914 . In: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78: 3 (1996) 179-198.
• James Farwell Coakley: Mar Elia Aboona and the history of the East Syrian patriarchate. In: Oriens Christianus. 85, 2001, ISSN  0340-6407 , pp. 119-138.
• Jean Maurice Fiey: Pour un Oriens Christianus Novus. Repertoire des diocèses syriaques orientaux et occidentaux. Steiner, Stuttgart 1993 ISBN 3-515-05718-8 , 51f.
• Theodore d'Mar Shimun: The History of the Patriarchal Succession of the d'Mar Shimun Family . Modesto 2008. ISBN 978-1-4363-1219-6 , pp. 50-52. 55. 57f.